Research interests / activities 1. Linguistics research -
a. counter discourses of meat consumption and factory farming
b. conflation of individual and species interests of non-human animals in environmental/ ecological discourses
2. professional outreach activities eg conference committee for Global Animal, U. Wollongong 2011; editorial board member for AASG Journal
3. Advocacy interests - member Animal Liberation NSW, past member Animal Liberation ACT, member Vegan Society NSW.
4. Interaction interests - alpacas, cows and guinea pigs primarily consuming attention at the moment
Potential areas for collaboration See section on current projects - I'm open to collaboration in these sorts of areas. I'm also open to collaborations in animal studies where close text analysis and/or corpus linguistic techniques could be helpful. My other research context is medical discourse. Projects which combine a focus on public health, clinical communication and/or psychotherapeutic discourse with forwarding the interests of animals could also be areas for collaboration.